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Why America still needs public schools

The impact of public education extends beyond teaching kids their ABCs and how to use a globe. FatCamera/E+ via Getty Images by Sidney Shapiro, Wake Forest...

How school choice policies evolved from supporting Black students to subsidizing middle-class families

Originally developed as a tool to help Black children attend better schools, school voucher programs now serve a different purpose. Drazen via Getty Images by...

Always watching: How ICE’s plan to monitor social media 24/7 threatens privacy and civic participation

ICE’s surveillance gaze is likely to sweep across millions of people’s social media posts. Westend61/Westend61 via Getty Images by Nicole M. Bennett, Indiana University When most...

How Zohran Mamdani’s ‘talent for listening’ spurred him to victory in the New York mayoral election

The new mayor of New York City, Zohran Mamdani, waves to a crowd in the Brooklyn borough of New York on November 4. Sarah Yenesel...

New Social Housing Programs Seek to Make Atlanta Homes Permanently Affordable

Activists in Seattle gather signatures to put a social housing initiative on the ballot. In early 2025, voters passed the measure, which implements a...

Yelp’s addition of a ‘Black-owned’ tag led to a slight drop in business ratings in Detroit

Yelp’s Black-owned tag was designed to help business owners like Don Studvent attract more customers. His restaurant closed in 2018 after nine years in...

Beyond the backlash: What evidence shows about the economic impact of DEI

DEI has a long history. Nora Carol Photography via Getty Images by Rodney Coates, Miami University Few issues in the U.S. today are as controversial as...

Could a bold anti-poverty experiment from the 1960s inspire a new era in housing justice?

Model Cities staff in front of a Baltimore field office in 1971. Robert Breck Chapman Collection, Langsdale Library Special Collections, University of Baltimore, CC...

5 years after George Floyd’s murder: How the media narrative has changed around the killing and the protests that followed

Flowers, painted benches and handmade memorials surround a mural of George Floyd at George Floyd Square on May 18, 2025. Kerem Yucel/AFP via Getty...

Aaliyah’s turn as a vampire in the nu-metal film Queen of the Damned is an often-overlooked part of her legacy

Aaliyah as Akasha in Queen of the Damned (2002). Landmark Media/Alamy Stock Photo by Francesca Sobande, Cardiff University Black women’s influence on metal and connected sub-genres...

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